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Oct 09
24

Who would win in a fight between Cthulhu and God with a machine gun? Scribblenauts knows.
(See 2:20 into the video.)

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Oct 09
17

During Mussolini’s rule of Italy, the country had a recreational organization called the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (the OND). While the main purpose of the OND under Mussolini was to promote Fascism, it was surprisingly progressive in that it allowed women to participate in “masculine” sports, which were normally limited to males only. However, the Catholic Church was opposed to this and pressured Mussolini’s government into barring female participation in any “masculine” activities. After all, Italian women might have started to think they could do manly sports like rowing *gasp*. That could turn female athletes into devil-worshiping lesbian heathens or something equally horrific! (Like skilled athletes?)

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Apr 08
22

I was just looking through a bunch of my childhood books and I was somewhat surprised to find a book entitled What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs? by John Morris, the president of the Institute for Creation Research, Ken Ham, the president of Answers in Genesis, and Jonathan Chong.

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Mar 08
24

On Pharyngula, I found this video: “Biblically Correct” Tour Guides For Jesus!!. The video speaks for itself. People’s beliefs are all too often determined by what they want to believe instead of by what they have reason to believe. This is especially true for those people who follow more “conservative” forms of Christianity or other religions. The curator in that video is an exception as he was, ironically, raised to be a Creationist.

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Mar 08
09

About a month ago, I saw a video about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s view that parts of Sharia law should be legally recognized by the UK’s government and just a few days ago, I read an article titled “Animal-sacrifice case highlights tensions over religious practices” both of which I came across on Pharyngula.

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